Li Shimin was reviewing the memorial when Li Mu came over and said softly: "Your Majesty."
Li Shimin still looked at the memorial, without raising his head, and asked casually: "What's the matter?"
"Your Majesty, a secret report came from Baiqisi. A group of dead soldiers from the Wang family have sneaked into the vicinity of Chang'an in batches. According to analysis, it is very likely that they are preparing to attack the Marquis of Jingyang County." Li Mu said.
Li Shimin's eyes flashed, he put down the memorial, raised his head and asked: "Are everyone under surveillance?"
Li Mu lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty, the Wang family sent all elites this time. Some of them are under surveillance, and some have not been found."
Li Shimin pondered for a long time, his face expressionless, showing no emotion or anger.
Li Mu was sweating with cold sweat on his forehead, and he didn't dare to breathe.
What he just said was a trick. In fact, only a small number of people are under surveillance.
The people sent by the Wang family are all the elite of the dead soldiers. It is very difficult to monitor them all without being noticed.
He said that part of it was monitored, but he did not say how much it was.
Now it seems that there is no way to hide it from Li Shimin.
After a long time, Li Shimin finally said: "I am very disappointed this time."
Li Mu fell to his knees with a plop and said, "Your Majesty, forgive me!"
Li Shimin looked at Li Mu for a while, then looked away and said calmly: "Get up, I don't want this kind of thing to happen again."
Li Mu didn't know whether Li Shimin was talking about being petty or because of poor monitoring.
But now it seems that Li Shimin does not intend to pursue the case, which makes Li Mu relieved.
"Your Majesty, do you want to send someone to protect the Marquis of Jingyang County?" Li Mu asked cautiously.
Should we send someone to protect Lin Xuan?
Li Shimin was also thinking about this issue.
The aristocratic family had sent many people to Chang'an to cause trouble before. Just a short time later, the Wang family sent people to assassinate Lin Xuan again, which was a slap in his face.
Li Shimin's first idea was to send someone to protect Lin Xuan so that all those who died would never come back.
Then go to the Wang family to settle accounts.
However, Li Shimin quickly calmed down.
There was no evidence at all from those dead soldiers. Even if he knew it was the Wang family who did it and the Wang family didn't admit it, there was nothing he could do.
For an emperor, sometimes evidence is not important, but sometimes it is very important.
If there is no evidence, attacking the Wang family will only make the world's famous families think that Li Shimin is going to attack them.
There are more than just five surnames and seven hopes in the world. If all those aristocratic families united, he would have a headache.
And now is not the time to deal with the noble family.
It's not that he's afraid of the noble family, but he doesn't want to use force to solve it.
He has been suppressing the aristocratic family, just to slowly weaken the aristocratic family by boiling frogs in warm water.
There had been little success over the years, until the reforms proposed by Lin Xuan gave Li Shimin hope.
What worried Li Shimin about the aristocratic family was not the family's private soldiers and huge wealth.
Although the aristocratic family had a large number of private soldiers in their hands, if Li Shimin was ruthless and tried hard to make the Tang Dynasty's national power regress, it would not be impossible to destroy the aristocratic family.
What really worries Li Shimin is that the family occupies a large number of official positions and has disciples and former officials all over the world.
Once you take action against the noble family, Datang will be paralyzed.
Now that the imperial examination is being reformed, as long as he is given time, he can naturally solve the family's problems without bloodshed.
There is a better way, so why take risks?
"There is no need to send people to protect them. Once they take action, just let Li Junxian lead people to rescue them as soon as possible." Li Shimin said calmly.
Li Shimin had a purpose in issuing such an order.
He once carefully studied Lin Xuan and found that Lin Xuan was the type of donkey.
If you can't hold it back, you will rush backwards.
While others thought about getting promoted to a noble position all day long, Lin Xuan thought about not having to go to court all day long.
Although people without ambition reassure the emperor, they are not his favorite.
For example, if you are the boss, you would not like it if your employees want to be salty fish all day long.
However, Li Shimin discovered that Lin Xuan had a shortcoming, that is, he was extremely revengeful.
When he was assassinated, he proposed reform of the imperial examination.
If the Wang family impeached him, he would make paper.
Qiwang of the fifth surname took action on his business, and he invented movable type printing.
These things were particularly helpful to him in suppressing the aristocratic family.
Who knows if Lin Xuan has more ruthless means?
If someone were sent to protect Lin Xuan, Lin Xuan would not be in any danger at all.
In this way, although Lin Xuan will retaliate, he will definitely not be too cruel.
Li Shimin decided to force him.
Li Junxian got the news and led people to rush to the rescue, which would take a lot of time.
This time can give Lin Xuan a strong sense of crisis.
Li Shimin is looking forward to how Lin Xuan will take revenge on the Wang family afterwards.
Li Shimin's calculation is very good, but what if something happens to Lin Xuan before Li Junxian arrives?
Didn't Li Shimin consider this issue?
No!
He thought about it, but he thought that Lin Xuan had a lion, and even if he couldn't beat him, there was still no problem in running away.
Although death is still possible, the chance is very small.
Compared to suppressing the aristocratic family, Li Shimin thought it was worth it to let Lin Xuan take some risks.
To the emperor, everyone in the world is a pawn, and as long as he thinks it is worth it, there is nothing that cannot be sacrificed.
Li Mu was startled and said, "Yes!"
Although he was very confused about Li Shimin's decision, he did not dare to ask any more questions.
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Boyuan Academy
After several days of discussion, Xu Geng perfected and announced the reward mechanism that Lin Xuan mentioned last time.
After learning about it, the entire academy became excited.
For those gentlemen, they are willing to teach just for money.
It may be too straightforward to say this, but it is the truth.
And what about those students?
Except for Zhouzhuang people, the rest of the students at Boyuan Academy are from surrounding villages.
Students from other villages spent money.
Although the money is not much, those who are willing to pay for their children to study have better conditions at home in Murakami.
But no one can ignore the rewards, whether they are students in Zhouzhuang or other villages.
Five guan of money is enough for any of their families to spend for a year.
Although the academy is not very far from Zhouzhuang, it was already dark when Goudan returned home.
The chickens raised by Zhou A Niu are already big. Zhou A Niu likes to sit in the wheelchair in the yard and watch the chickens running around when he has nothing to do.
Zhou Aniu saw Goudan coming back and said with a smile: "Your mother is cooking. She killed a chicken today and eat more tonight."
On days like this, Zhou Aniu feels very happy and always has a smile on his face.
Goudan said: "Dad, I can eat meat every day in the college. I'm tired of it. I just need to eat some rice."
Does Gou Dan really not want to eat it? No, he really wants to eat it.
The college provides meals at noon, including meat, but they must not be eaten as meals.
But he knew that meat was rarely eaten at home, and he wanted his parents and sister to eat more.
Of course Zhou Aniu knew his son's little thoughts and said with a smile: "There is a lot of chicken. Come on, push me into the house."
Goudan pushed Zhou Aniu into the house, and not long after, Shen Yuee and Erya brought food.
The family sat down around a broken table.
Shen Yue'e gave the two chicken legs to Goudan and Erya.
"Mom, I don't need it, give it to daddy."
With that said, Goudan picked up the chopsticks and wanted to give Zhou Aniu the chicken legs.
Shen Yue'e quickly stopped: "There is still so much meat, eat it quickly and be obedient."